Canonical input driver settings

[metux]

Describe the idea

Several input drivers have various driver specific settings (input device properties), which are only valid to certain specific driver.
Thus clients (eg. session managers) need to support all of those (for each individual driver) and also probe which drivers are actually running, in order to practically make use of them.

Instead we should standardize those (which make sense for multiple drivers / device types) into generic ones (eg. mouse acceleration, tap times, etc, etc), which all drivers (where those make sense) support.

Plan:

• review existing properties and rethink them one by one
• write a clear specification on what it supposed to mean / how it works
• pick a device-agnostic / generic name
• add support for the new property into all affected drivers (leave the old one for compat)

It should be done because

Standardization of currently drivers specific properties - decouple clients from driver specifics.

What are the alternatives?

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Additional context

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